Accession number
MS M.875
Object title
De proprietatibus rerum (MS M.875).
Display Date
1400-1410.
Created
England, 1400-1410.
Binding
English 18th-century tan sprinkled calf, one clasp remaining, with 5 metal bosses on each cover and the Dysart-Tollemache arms in gold (a fret with winged horse crest), repaired by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Gift; Edwin John Beinecke (b. 1886); 1955.
Description
338 leaves (2 columns, 43 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 440 x 306 mm
Provenance
owned by Richard de Beauchamp, bishop of Salisbury (1430-1481; his initials and title found on folios 6 and 338v); Tollemache family (who called it "the Trevisa manuscript") (probably emtered through Lionel Tollemache (d.1669), husband of Elizabeth, Countess of Dysart (armorial stamp gilt tooled on covers - argent a fret sable, crest: a horse's head erased gu. between two wings expanded or pelletée; examined at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, a seat of the Dysart-Tollemache family, by Arthur J. Horwood in 1869 and by Archdeacon R.H. Groome (1810-1889); purchased by Mr. Edwin J. Beinecke through A. Robinson as a gift to the Library in 1955.
Notes
Ms. encyclopedia; written and illuminated in England, 1400-1410.
Translated by John de Trevisa.
Decoration: illuminated initials, borders, and marginal ornament in pink and green acanthus motifs with sprays of foliage.
Translated by John de Trevisa.
Decoration: illuminated initials, borders, and marginal ornament in pink and green acanthus motifs with sprays of foliage.
Script
bastarda
Language
Middle English and Latin
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